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DRAGO MLINAREC - Pjesme s planine (1972)(Vinyl-rip,EAC,log,cue,flac,scans)
Studio Album, released in 1972
Tracks
1. Nocna ptica (3:22)
2. Pjesma o njenim snovima (3:33)
3. Trebao sam ali nisam (2:41)
4. Pjesme s planine (9:15)
5. Skladiste tisine (4:24)
6. Otac i sin (3:49)
7. Dijete zvijezda (11:34)
Musicians
- Drago Mlinarec / vocals, ac. guitar, harmonica
- Nenad Zubak / bass
- Srecko Zubak / keyboards
- Jadranko Budic / el. guitar, back vocals
- Ivan Stancic / drums
Drago Mlinarec was one of the most prolific singer/songwriters in the former
Yugoslavia and the leader of the renowned beatsters GRUPA 220, the first ex-YU rock
band that managed to record an LP album back in 1968 in Zagreb (present Croatia).
Upon the break-up of the group's first line-up in 1970, Mlinarec gathered a new
GRUPA 220 band with the musicians: Husein Hasanefendic, Ivan Piko Stancic, Nenad
Zubak and Brane Zivkovic. He planned a new GRUPA 220 album, but instead decided to
issue it under his solo name, "A ti se ne daj" in 1971. That album marked the
beginning of his solo career and the following year saw the release of "Pjesme s
planine", critically acclaimed LP with Zubak and Stancic of GRUPA 220 as rhythm
section. The third album "Rodjenje" in 1975 introduced keyboard player Neven
Franges with whom Mlinarec was about to collaborate until 1978, recording two more
albums. During 1970s Mlinarec also appeared at many rock festivals including famous
"BOOM" pop festival in Ljubljana 1972 and 1973, and was engaged in composing music
for several theatre plays, TV shows, documentary and feature films. From 1979 till
1983 he recorded three albums in Sweden with producer/multiinstrumentalist Tinnie
Varga, while during the 1980s he collaborated with Zagreb-based New Wave bands AZRA
and LE CINEMA. Around 1987 Mlinarec moved to the Croatian countryside, where he
lived away from publicity until 1994 when he recorded an ambient-experimental
cassette tape "Analog" with Aldo Ivancic. The CD retrospective "Krhotine" appeared
in 1996, which presented a recap of his entire career. In 1997 Mlinarec won
Croatian music honorary award "Porin" for life accomplishment in music.
Mlinarec's first four albums ("A ti se ne daj", "Pjesme s planine", "Rodjenje" and
"Negdje postoji netko") are usually regarded to be the best; there he explored
diverse musical interests, crossing over between acid-tinged jam proto-prog rock
with long compositions featuring guitar, organ and flute solos, and more mellow
acoustic and electric folk rock with progressive and sometimes psychedelic or
"classical" feeling. On one hand it resembles TRAFFIC or CSN&Y, on the other
"Meddle"-era PINK FLOYD.
Recommended to fans of folk-rock, progressive folk and acoustic guitars with
melodic but sometimes extended songs, with psyche moments.
Mlinarec's music is closely related to progressive rock and progressive folk, with
often long compositions, poetic lyrics and acoustic and classical influences and
was the premier singer/songwriter during 1970s in ex Yugoslavia.
Discography:
A ti se ne daj, studio album (1971)
Pjesme s planine, studio album (1972)
Rodjenje, studio album (1975)
Negdje postoji netko, studio album (1977)
Sve je u redu, studio album (1978)
Tako lako, studio album (1979)
Sabrano, compilation (1980)
Pomaknuto, studio album (1983)
Analog, studio album (1994)
Krhotine, compilation (1996)
"Pjesme s planine" (Eng. "Songs From The Mountain") was the second album of Drago
Mlinarec, recorded and released in 1972, after he spent some time in the
mountainous countryside where he wrote most of these songs. The backing band was
titled PRIJATELJI (The Friends), while instead of departed Brane Zivkovic and
Husein Hasanefendic, who had taken part in the previous album "A ti se ne daj", new
members were keyboard player Srecko Zubak and lead guitarist Jadranko Budic. The
remaining musicians from the debut, drummer Stancic and a fine bassist Nenad Zubak,
were present here.
It is another strong effort of Mlinarec's songwriting, which contained two extended

progressive masterpieces. First is a wonderful folk-rock epic of the title song
with some hints of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young guitar sound, while the second is
a slightly psychedelic and jazz-oriented "Dijete zvijezda" ("The Starchild") with
FLOYD-like passages of bass and electric piano/organ. "Pjesma o njenim snovima"
("Song About Her Dreams") and "Trebao sam ali nisam" ("I Should But I Did Not") are
nice folksy acoustic ballads, the latter having percussion and tambourine in the
vein of early VELVET UNDERGROUND. "Nocna ptica" ("The Night Bird") is extremely
catchy pop-rock track with Mlinarec taking a female role when singing the lyrics
about a lonely and abandoned woman, while heavy boogie rock of "Otac i sin"
("Father And Son") resembles the biblical theme of Prodigal Son. The album is
overall very good, although Mlinarec's voice is not at his best performance and the
songs seem a bit unharmonized. "Skladiste tisine" ("The Silence Depot") is a sort
of DYLAN- esque "protest song" with harmonica, singing about "the protesters being
afraid to speak up and keeping their truth to themselves", as Mlinarec explained
during its live and slightly better version recorded on the live album of "BOOM Pop
Festival Ljubljana '72".
"Pjesme s planine" is an excellent album that should be recommended, if nothing

then for the sake of two progressive gems, the title track and "Dijete zvijezda".

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DRAGO MLINAREC - Pjesme s planine (1972)(Vinyl-rip,EAC,log,cue,flac,scans)

Studio Album, released in 1972

It is another strong effort of Mlinarec's songwriting, which contained two extended

"Pjesme s planine" is an excellent album that should be recommended, if nothing

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